Example sentences of "the [noun sg] we [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It was felt that the Stand we had last year was well worthwhile . |
2 | Continuing up the easy gradient of the ridge we made frequent stops to admire the icy crest and fearsome north west face of Chamlang , soaring skywards . |
3 | In the afternoon we visit Ruthven Barracks , near Kingussie , an infantry barracks built by the Hanoverian government following the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 . |
4 | The people of Palestine in Kuwait generally are people who just want to live and make and living and support their own erm cause , and on the contrary we have many Palestinians who helped the Kuwaitis and protected them during the invasion . |
5 | In The Silmarillion we learn that water is the province of the Vala Ulmo , and that from it ( sea or river ) there often comes assistance ; the incident with Sam and Frodo begins to seem less and less like chance , more and more of a ‘ sending ’ . |
6 | To attach the sail to the boom we have two clips , one simply holds the sail down to the boom , whilst the other one , the out-haul is used to bury the tension on the foot of the sail . |
7 | But then the good old American public elected Nixon so here you had Al Capone in the White House and these same political scientists wrote books saying hey hang on , when we said more power to the president we meant more power for our kind of president , you know , Jack , you know , and L B J and the boys , not this Nixon , Tricky Dicky character . |
8 | Before the study we obtained informed consent from all subjects . |
9 | In certain countries on the Continent we use tougher methods … ’ |
10 | Our first problem at Llandrindod Wells was to estimate the numbers coming to the lake , so each night during the spring we made hourly circuits of the lake collecting all the toads we encountered . |
11 | From the management we get positive hinderance not support . |
12 | All the examples continue the work we began last month by featuring double stops that have been derived from chords . |
13 | On the morrow we added three mules ( and their muleteers ) : Llacen , a wizened old man , Hussein , a lively character , and young Omar , all tousled hair and grin , who made the entire trip in flip flops ! |
14 | In West Yorkshire to the South we have similar problems of inner city decline and there as we understand it the authorities wish to cater for their housing needs . |
15 | That 's the question we asked last week , well because they 're chairman of the board . |
16 | ‘ Is it safe to do that , knowing one outcome may be that at the end of the process we exclude sexual abuse ? |
17 | The moment we ask any questions they 'll think the British government is going to do just that , and it 's not . |
18 | When I was taught chemistry at Regent 's Street Polytechnic in the later 1930s , we 16-year-olds were treated as adults , not incompetents , and were expected to achieve titrations accurate to 1 per cent or less from the moment we began quantitative analysis : for were we not addressed by our splendid lecturers as ‘ Mr ’ ? |
19 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
20 | But at the moment we have four fish , plus some other unusual things that float around the tank . |
21 | At the moment we have some idea of the motives for casting certain groups in society as ‘ outsiders ’ . |
22 | Because at the moment we have different costing forms on different colours so as to know , to differentiate between post or telephone , face-to-face and so on . |
23 | Erm the team we beat last week |
24 | Through reading the Bible we discover fundamental truths about God , and see them demonstrated by events in the lives of his people which illuminate his character and illustrate his will for all men at all times . |
25 | In the drawing-room we meet some ancestors : ‘ That delightful man , ’ Olivia says , pointing to a small eighteenth-century portrait , ‘ is my favourite relation . |
26 | In the beginning we had three announcers — Sid Boyling , whose rich round voice went down well with our listeners , Louis Bourgeois , a gentle and studious young man with noticeable literary talent , and Bob MacLean , the very steady and well-spoken son of a senior CPR official . |
27 | And it was er , it was quite amazing when we were going on the motorway we saw these cars with erm er er there was like Pakistani erm and Turkish flags flying and when we got , er when we was going at the night time to Blackpool it was crammed ! |
28 | By Monday morning when she got back , the numbers were up to 75 and on the day we had 80 people . ’ |
29 | yeah he said we should of got it , it should of gone in the bank the day we got that letter |
30 | ‘ One student told me , ‘ The day we leave this place is a victory for racism ’ , ’ he said . |